Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics is just completely strange and counterintuitive. We can't believe that things can be here [in one place] and there [in… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
The treatment of the indeterminacy principle as absolute and final can then be criticized as constituting an arbitrary restriction on scientific theories,… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
“We are not talking about waves or particles, what we are talking about is a quantum of action in a field. This… — Rick Delmonico Copy Share Image
“But our relationship to these infinite pasts and futures isn’t random—plausibility throws its weight around, per some freaky quantum mechanics stuff that… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
“Thus it was that Einstein ended up deciding that quantum mechanics, though it may not be wrong, was at least incomplete. There… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
“The strength of the familiar electromagnetic force between two electrons, for example, is expressed in physics in terms of a constant known… — Mario Livio Copy Share Image
“In Keynes’s time, physicists were first grappling with the concept of quantum mechanics, which, among other things, imagined a cosmos governed by… — Peter D. Schiff Copy Share Image
“You create reality by looking at it, is what Quantum Mechanics suggests. This may sound outrageously magical. Quantum Mechanics or QM, is… — Sharad Nalawade Copy Share Image
“The nature of the 'collapse of the wave function' is determined by our self-concept stored in the subconscious mind. Our subconscious mind… — Kevin Michel Copy Share Image
Indeterminism does not confer freedom on us: I would feel that my freedom was impaired if I thought that a quantum mechanical… — J. J. C. Smart Copy Share Image
There are many things that we still don't understand about the universe, right? Einstein struggled to bring quantum mechanics and gravity together… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
But some of these theories are so bold that they can clash with reality: they are the testable theories of science. And… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Einstein comes along and says, space and time can warp and curve, that's what gravity is. Now string theory comes along and… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“As mentioned before, quantum mechanics guarantees that any physical system with finite energy confined to a finite volume of space has a… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Can quantum mechanics represent the fact that an electron finds itself approximately in a given place and that it moves approximately with… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
A further aspect I should like to discuss is what I call the practice of infinite escape clauses. I believe we developed… — Sidney W. Fox Copy Share Image
I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“The mind reels when we realize that, according to this interpretation of quantum mechanics, all possible worlds coexist with us. Although wormholes… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
If I realize that actually there's quantum mechanics happening around us all the time in some macroscopic, interconnected way, then that doesn't… — Aaron D. O'Connell Copy Share Image
Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
When you do calculations using quantum mechanics, even when you are calculating something perfectly sensible like the energy of an atomic state,… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between… — Yuan T. Lee Copy Share Image
“It’s sometimes said that the greatest remaining scientific questions are: What caused the Big Bang? What is the grand unified theory that… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
While many questions about quantum mechanics are still not fully resolved, there is no point in introducing needless mystification where in fact… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
No. I had successfully solved the difficulty of finding a description of the electron which was consistent with both relativity and quantum… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
I find enough mystery in mathematics to satisfy my spiritual needs. I think, for example, that pi is mysterious enough (don't get… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“The Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics posits that all possible realities exist. That everything which has a probability of happening is happening.… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of… — Kate McKinnon Copy Share Image
![“Quantum mechanics is just completely strange and counterintuitive. We can't believe that things can be here [in one place] and there [in another place] at the same time. And yet that's a fundamental piece of quantum mechanics. So then the question is, life is dealing us weird lemons, can we make…” quote by Seth Lloyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ad7/seth-lloyd-13748_believe_quantum-mechanics-is-just-completely-str_1791974.jpg)
![“If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way, which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have seen before.” quote by Richard P. Feynman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fd0/richard-p-feynman-495_behave_if-i-say-electrons-behave-like-particles_1495136.jpg)
